Does Yom Kippur Cause You Anxiety? -&nbsp;Live Blunt conversation with Rabbi YY, Motzai Shabbos, Parshas Haazinu, September 23, 2023.

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How Can We Experience the Bliss of Yom Kippur?

Rabbi YY in Conversation with Trauma Victims

Yom Kippur Without Anxiety

This class was presented on Tuesday, 21 Elul, 5784, Parshas Nitzavim-Vayeilech, September 24, 2024, at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

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I Can Live My Entire Life with a Superficial Identity; Teshuvah is Realignment

Women's RH/YK Class

Stepping Into Your Highest Soul Frequency: No Rupture, No Void, No Need for Logic

Rabbi YY Jacobson&nbsp;on the 10th of Elul, 5782, September 6, 2022, addressing&nbsp;Chabad of Aventura, Florida.

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Is G-d Present in My Pain and My Mistakes? Reb Tzvi Pesach Frank and the Hebron Massacre

Lecture at Chabad of Aventura

When Your Sins Become Holy

This weekly women&#39;s class was&nbsp;presented on Tuesday Parshas Ha&#39;azinu, 8 Tishrei, 5781, September 14, 2021, live at Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

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My Greatest Sin Is Not Believing How Good I Am

Yom Kippur Women's Class

The Teshuvah of Our Generation

This lecture by Rabbi YY Jacobson, at the Ner Mordechei/Shaarei Torah Center in Queens, NY, was organized by Chazaq, and was presented on Thursday, 4 Tishrei, 5779, September 13, 2018.

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The Incredible Story of Paraplegic Olympics

Queens Yom Kippur Lecture

The Modern Jewish Marrano

This lecture, organized by Mercaz Torah V&#39;Chesed in&nbsp;Denver, Colorado, was presented on Sunday, 7 Tishrei, 5780, October 6, 2019.

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Seeing the Holiness in Your Sins

Denver Yom Kippur Lecture

The Jewish Approach to Guilt

Rabbi YY Jacobson&#39;s breakout session at the YEHUDI Day of Inspiration &amp; Million Dollar Campaign, 7 Tishrei, 5777, Oct 9, 2016, at the Hyatt Regency, Miami, Florida.

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How the Kabbalah Reconciles Free Choice and Divine Providence

Lecture Yehudi Conference

The Holiness of Your Sins

This class was presented on Tuesday, Parshas Ki Savo, 17 Elul, 5782, September 13, 2022, at 18 Forshay, Bais Medrash Ohr Chaim in Monsey, NY.

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Has Our Generation Become Too Obsessed With Our Emotions?

Rosh Hashanah/Yom Kippur Women's Class

IFS and Judaism

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YY Moment/Yom Kippur

Cleaning The Palace

Of all the Rabbis cited in the Talmud, only one became a heretic. His name was Elisha ben Avuya. He was, by all accounts, one of the outstanding Jewish sages of the second-century, a contemporary of Rabbi Akiva and the teacher of Rabbi Meir, the leading scholars of his generation.

Elisha moved so far from Jewish tradition that his colleagues stopped referring to him by his name, but rather called him Acher, &ldquo;the other&rdquo;, the outcast, the renegade. Only his student Rabbi Meir remained loyal to the man who had once been his master, sought out his company and still believed that he might one day repent.

Against this backdrop we find a deeply moving scene in the Talmud. It is Shabbat, and Elisha ben Abuya is publicly desecrating the holy day by riding on a horse. Walking alongside him is Rabbi Meir. Heretic teacher and faithful disciple travel together along the road arguing and debating Jewish law. Rabbi Meir, the pious Jew, has become so immersed in the conversation that he has not noticed they are nearing the limits beyond which one may not walk on Shabbat. &ldquo;Acher&rdquo;, the apostate, realizes this and says: &ldquo;Meir, turn back. I have measured the distance we have walked by the paces of my horse, and we have reached the Shabbat limit. Beyond here, you are forbidden to walk.

Meir replied: &ldquo;You too turn back.&rdquo;

&ldquo;I cannot turn back,&rdquo; says Elisha. &ldquo;One day I was riding on my horse. It was Yom Kippur, which in that particular year fell on Shabbat. I was roaming behind the Holy of Holies, when I heard a heavenly voice saying: &lsquo;Turn back to me, O lost children, except for Acher... &rsquo;&rdquo;

What is the message of this story? That G-d indeed does not forgive all humans who want to repent? That some must truly be condemned forever? This would contradict a fundamental idea in Judaism that nothing stands in the way of repentance.

Furthermore, if G-d did not want Elisha to repent, why did He communicate with him at all? Why did the heavenly voice begin with words of love and encouragement &ldquo;Turn back to me, O lost children,&rdquo; and end with the fearful decree &ldquo;except for Acher&rdquo;? And why did Rachel name her long-awaited-for son Joseph, so that &ldquo;G-d may grant me yet another son!&rdquo; Why not celebrate this child?

This class will analyze the tragic story of Acher, the mysterious call to him on Yom Kippur, and his misinterpretation of it. It will teach us about the pain and destiny of our own lives, often lost and fragmented.

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The Story of the Greatest Heretic in Jewish History: Elisha Ben Avuyah

The Holy Heretic

There is an ancient Jewish tradition that every man, every woman, every event, everything that ever was or will be, can be found in the tiny Torah Portion of Haazinu. This claim seems preposterous, but it is true, and documented in the name of one of the greatest of all Medival Sages, Nachmanides. (Rabbi Moses ben Nachman, born in Gerona, Spain, 1194, and died in the Land of Israel, 1270.)" This class will analyze an episode concerning one of Nachmanide&rsquo;s students who became a terrible apostate upon hearing this teaching. Yet Nachmindes refuted him, and we will also find this students name in Haazinu and see how the words that spell his name also prophesized his end. We will discover the limits of repentance, and answer the question: &lsquo;Can one go just too far?&rsquo;

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One Door Never Closes

The Story of Reb Avner

This Yiddish lecture was presented by Rabbi YY Jacobson at the &quot;Ashreichem Yisroel&quot; event&nbsp;in honor of the new Mikvah at the Beis Hamidrash Beis Baruch of Chassidei Tzanz-Klausenburg, in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY, under the leadership of the Tzanz-Klausenburger Rebbe, Rabbi Shmuel David Halberstam&nbsp;Shlita.

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Why Purim Is Superior to Yom Kippur

Klausenburg Mikvah Lecture

Yiddish: The Mikvah -- A Story of Unconditional Love

you are good!

On Wednesday evening, 7 Tishrei, 5785, Oct. 9, 2024, Rabbi YY Jacobson addressed questions from Fresh Start Participants, concerning Yom Kippur, guilt, forgiveness, confession, and finding the bliss and joy in an authentic relationship with G-d.
&nbsp;Fresh Start Retreat, Their flagship program, Fresh Start Retreat, is a 7-day intensive retreat helping participants understand their past to create a brighter future. <a href="https://jewishfreshstart.com/home">https://jewishfreshstart.com/home</a>

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A Guided Meditation to Connect with Your Inner Child

Rabbi YY to Fresh Start Participants

How Can I Experience a Blissful Yom Kippur?

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How Can I Experience a Blissful Yom Kippur?

A Guided Meditation to Connect with Your Inner Child

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